Elizabeth George Quotes
The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.Elizabeth George
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We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.
Naveen Jain -
Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.
Edgar Ramirez -
RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.
Frances O'Grady -
When I look at my streams on Spotify, and I just see it's hundreds of millions of streams, I think, 'Wow, that's amazing.' But you don't really get it. Once you see people in front of you singing along to your songs, it's real.
Zara Larsson -
What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
Anton Zaslavski -
I continued to suffer from anxiety and obsessive thoughts, although the thoughts stopped centering on hell. I moved into an ashram called the Himalayan Institute after college and studied meditation, which made an enormous difference.
Maggie Rowe
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Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.
Malcolm McDowell -
The thing that I really love about film is that it is with you forever - it goes to your children, and they get to see it again and again and have it forever.
Tammy Blanchard -
As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.
Adam Mansbach -
The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.
Pankaj Mishra -
Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.
Isaac D'Israeli -
Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible. Patriotism is not necessarily included in rebellion. A man may hate his king, yet not love his country.
Samuel Johnson
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Erudition, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
Ambrose Bierce -
The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
Aung San Suu Kyi -
The Internet is too transformative for incumbents to not want to try to stifle or curb it - incumbents in the sense of multinational corporations, governments, take your pick.
Alexis Ohanian -
When my parents were like, 'We're going to the Northwest,' I thought, 'You've gotta be kidding me.' I was so depressed. The cold weather really did not agree with me. When I moved back down to L.A. at 16, I felt like it was home - it was where I belonged.
Bonnie McKee -
You don't see me in the clubs unless I'm throwing a party for Fashion Week.
Kimora Lee Simmons -
I think that's given inspiration to other musicians. I know, particularly through the 90s, a lot of bands would cite Rush as an influence. I don't think it was so much our music, but more the way we really stuck to our guns.
Alex Lifeson Rush
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
Adam Mansbach -
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Larry Wall -
I was attracted to 'Half of a Yellow Sun' because of the story.
Chiwetel Ejiofor -
As far as my contribution to this industry, I want to be like Dean Devlin, John Rogers, and Chris Downey. I want to give people jobs and put them on great shows. I want to create careers for people.
Aldis Hodge -
It is not for the people to give laws to the prince, but to obey his mandate.
Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor -
The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.
Elizabeth George